mystical teachings is also amazing if it is in your colors. The map mainly finds karoo lands for me (playing vs all comers though and not much ld online in multi which might be different for you guys).
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What other pauper tutors do people run in their decks?
As for which of these are actually run, a few observations can be made. If you look at the best 5C lists, you'll find that they run all transmute spells (possibly with the exception of Dizzy Spell or Brainspoil), Mystical Teachings, and possibly a wizard and/or trinket package. So these are basically auto includes if you can run them.
The green tutors are less popular because the pauper card pool has so few relevant creature or land bombs. The strength of a PDH deck usually lies in its non-permanents. That's why Mystical Teachings is the most powerful tutor. However, more 5C lists should probably be running Reap and Sow over Expedition Map (though both are about as good and could be run). And the green creature tutors are definetely good enough to be run in mono-green, maybe even some bi or tri color lists (if they run enough elves and fatties).
The Hartebeest is the most peculiar of the lot. If you run monowhite or bicolor, chances are you will have plenty of aura based removal anyway and then he's an autoinclude. As you move up to 3+ colors though, it usually gets more difficult to motivate the inclusion of at least 3 auras that are necessary to support him.
Are there anyways to tutor for a Whispersilk Cloak?
Apart from the obvious Perplex and Drift of Phantasms, chaining tutors is something to consider. Only those 2 will search for the cloak, but Mystical Teachings and Merchant Scroll searches for Perplex, and those tutors are in turn 2 and 4 CMC cards that can be tutored with other transmute cards... You CAN get the card you need in Pauper, it's just a question of what it will cost you.
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Cards like Wirewood Herald help you find any Elf, which is pretty handy in PDH, considering Pauper has so many sac outlets.
What other pauper tutors do people run in their decks? Are there anyways to tutor for a Whispersilk Cloak?
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Most of the time Trinket Mage is pure gold and depending on the deck Merchant Scroll, Vedalken Aethermage, and Totem-Guide Hartebeest can be solid as well. I've also had limited success with Expedition Map. Mostly it just finds Bojuka Bog but it can fix mana, too.
Artifact: Expedition Map
White: Totem-guide Hartebeest
Blue: Merchant Scroll, Dizzy Spell, Muddle the Mixture, Drift of Phantasms, Vedalken Aethermage, Trinket Mage
Black: Shred Memory, Dimir House Guard, Brainspoil
Red: None.
Green: Fierce Empath, Wirewood Herald, Crop Rotation, Reap and Sow
Multicolored: Mystical Teachings, Dimir Infiltrator, Perplex
As for which of these are actually run, a few observations can be made. If you look at the best 5C lists, you'll find that they run all transmute spells (possibly with the exception of Dizzy Spell or Brainspoil), Mystical Teachings, and possibly a wizard and/or trinket package. So these are basically auto includes if you can run them.
The green tutors are less popular because the pauper card pool has so few relevant creature or land bombs. The strength of a PDH deck usually lies in its non-permanents. That's why Mystical Teachings is the most powerful tutor. However, more 5C lists should probably be running Reap and Sow over Expedition Map (though both are about as good and could be run). And the green creature tutors are definetely good enough to be run in mono-green, maybe even some bi or tri color lists (if they run enough elves and fatties).
The Hartebeest is the most peculiar of the lot. If you run monowhite or bicolor, chances are you will have plenty of aura based removal anyway and then he's an autoinclude. As you move up to 3+ colors though, it usually gets more difficult to motivate the inclusion of at least 3 auras that are necessary to support him.
Apart from the obvious Perplex and Drift of Phantasms, chaining tutors is something to consider. Only those 2 will search for the cloak, but Mystical Teachings and Merchant Scroll searches for Perplex, and those tutors are in turn 2 and 4 CMC cards that can be tutored with other transmute cards... You CAN get the card you need in Pauper, it's just a question of what it will cost you.
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"At least for those who can play cards, their present incarnation is not quite wasted."
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